Belt-buckle.



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

BELT-BUCKLE Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed March 2, 1908.

Patented July 6, 1909.

Serial No. 418,840.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JAMES Houen, of the city of Guelph, in the county of Wellington, in the Province of Ontario, Canada, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Belt-Buckles, of which the following is the specification.

My invention relates to improvements in belt buckles, and the object of the invention is to construct the buckle, so that it may be utilized for severing the wire on the top of a bottle and at the same time provide a means whereby the free end of the strap of the buckle may be neatly held in place during the wearing of the belt and it consists essentially of two peculiar projections extending inwardly from the side bars at the end of the buckle opposite that in which the ordinary end bar is located, such spicular projections being sharpened and arranged as hereinafter more particularly explained.

Figure 1, is a view showing a belt provided with my improvement. Fig. 2, is an enlarged detail of the buckle. Fig. 3, is an enlarged sectional detail.

In the drawings like letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in each figure.

A is the buckle, which comprises the side bars A, end bars A into which the free end of the strap is designed to be passed, and a cross bar A, which carries the tongue A. The ends of the side bars A are bent as shown in the drawings first outwardly at right angles and then inwardly at right angles to the aforesaid bend to form flat spicu lar projections A These projections are i preferably sharpened and are located opposite each other and extend to the front of the buckle. The strap B is held at one end on the tongue cross bar in the usual manner and at the opposite end is passed between the end bar and the body and is held by the tongue and extends through one of the holes in the same. The free end of the strap is passed within the projections A as indicated in Fig. 1, and is retained by them, such projections holding the end of the strap securely and neatly in place. To remove the closure of a bottle if such closure be a cork and wired, the wires may be cut by first removing the free end of the strap and then drawing the wires over the spicular projections. The cork may be pulled then by the cork screw tongue, which it is not necessary here to de scribe as it forms the subject matter of a separate application. Of course, the free end of the strap may be inserted beneath the projections again and held in place as before.

What I claim as my invention is:

A buckle comprising a Ushaped member, a cross bar connecting the legs of the U together adjacent their free ends, a tongue on the cross bar, and the ends of the U members beyond the cross bar terminating in inwardly projecting portions extending above the horizontal plane of the rest of the buckle to form a retaining means for the end of the belt.

JAMES HOUGH. lVitnesses:

B. Born, It. OOBAIN. 

